384
NOTES AND QUERIES. [io s. v. MAY 19,
Puckering.* Lyons found also that this Si
Hugh Portman owned " the old house oppo
site to the Palace," the Palace in 1792 being
Kew House. But the author of the 'Envi
rons ' seems to have been unaware of th<
identity of this Sir Hugh, or of his connexion
with the Portmans of Somersetshire ; neither
is he quite right about the house owned by
Sir Hugh, viz., the Dairy House, which in
1595 stood o?i the site of that seen by the
author in 1792. Manning, in his 'History
of Surrey ' (1804), connects Sir Hugh with
the Dairy House, but does not identify him
and Brayley, in his 'Surrey' (1841), finding
the existing house (on the site of the Dairy
House) called " the Dutch House," with some
tradition of a Dutch merchant attached to
it, concluded that Sir Hugh Portman was
the Dutch merchant. Later writers ex-
plained that he was only Dutch in the sense
of trading in Dutch merchandise a yet later
development being that he was a sugar
refiner, that being a Dutch business !
While authors thus mixed facts and guesses, Sir Hugh's identity lay hidden in the Port- man Inquisitions p.m. at the Public Record Office. These show clearly that Sir Hugh Portman, of Orchard-Portman in Somerset, and his heirs were owners of two messuages at Kew, one of which was "le Dairie Howse"; and also that he and they held the property -at Marylebone acquired temp. Henry VIII. by their ancestor Sir William Portman, Lord Chief Justice of England. These Portmans never saw "the Dutch House," i.e., the yet existing Palace. About a quarter of a cen- tury after Sir Hugh's death (d. 1604), his heir sold the Dairy House, &c., to a veritable Dutchman and merchant of London, Samuel Fortrey, who pulled down the old mansion, and in its stead raised the existing handsome red-brick house. The initials of himself and his wife Catherine F.S.C., for Fortrey, Samuel and Catherine appear on the south front over the entrance door, and also the date 1631, presumably that of erection. The Fortrey
- It is not improbable that Portman and Pucker-
ing were connected, and even possible that the Dairy House at Kew was transferred to {Sir Hugh Portman from Lord Keeper Puckering. The con- nexion is not shown in the 1623 'Visitation of Somerset' (ed. Harl. Soc., xi. 126); but in the earlier visitations and additions thereto (ed. Rev. .F. W. Weaver) Sir John Portman, brother of Sir Hugh, marries the daughter of Lord Keeper Pucker- ing. In the 1623 Visitation the same Sir John marries Ann, daughter of Sir Henry Gifford. Of course, one wife may have succeeded the other; but, at all events, the fact of Puckering and Port- man being found together at Kew in Io95, joined to the mention of an alliance in one pedigree, points to connexion.
heir sold the property in 1697 (Lysons) to
Sir Richard Levett, Lord Mayor of London in
1700 ; and in the reign of George II. (c. 1730)
the house was acquired as a royal auxiliary to
Richmond Lodge, then the royal residence,
which purpose it also served to Kew House
when the latter became thePalace. George III.
inhabited it before his accession, while his
mother, the Dowager Princess of Wales, re-
tained Kew House ; and on the demolition of
the latter in 1802 the Dutch House became
the remaining residence of the royal family,
henceforth being known as the Palace. Queen
Charlotte died here in 1818.
W. L. RUTTON.
NORWEGIAN DICTIONARIES. The approach-
ing coronation at Throndhjem will be an event
of importance to many Englishmen. They
will need a good Norwegian dictionary, and
unfortunately it is not possible to recommend
any of those we usually meet. Otto Holtzes',
published in Copenhagen, is common, but is
strictly Danish, and not much to be com-
mended at that. Another professes to be
Norwegian, and is certainly more ambitious.
Its merits are questionable. It is entitled
'* Gealmuyden : Engelsk-Norsk Ordbog, ved
H. Eitrem," and is published at Christiania.
It may have many good qualities, but if so
does not put its best foot foremost. On p. 1
I read :
' 1. a el s. bogstavens navn A.C. Anno Christi.
A.D A.R.A. Associate of the Royal Academy.
A.R.S.A. Associate of the Royal Scottish Academy. A.S. Anglo-Saxon. A.A.S. Antiquariorum societaa ociiis, fellow of the Royal Society of Antiquaries."
This, the first paragraph, is only a specimen f the whole work. W. J. L.
Savile Club.
WILLIAM SYMONDS'S * PISGAH EVANGELICA.' In Anth. a Wood's ' Ath. Oxon.' (ed. 1815, p ol. ii. c. 142) the date of the publication of his work is given as 1605. Excepting the opy before me, and the one mentioned by Miss as being in the Bodleian, I have never een or heard of any other bearing this date, ^he copy in the British Museum, as I gather rom the Catalogue, is dated 1606 ; and the me or two copies which I have seen offered 3y booksellers in the course of a number of T ears (the little quarto is undoubtedly rare) ill bore the date 1606. Even Symonds's ontemporary, William Cowper, Bishop of jJalloway, in his Prologue, so to speak, to is ' Commentary on the Revelation of >t. lohn,' 1623, gives the date of the book as 606. In the circumstances it may not be tit of place to quote here the publisher's
